The Wife of Bath's Tale

What type of story is The Canterbury Tales considered to be?

• a sonnet
• an epic story
• a frame story
• a non-fiction story

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In The Wife's Tale, what does the Knight do to merit punishment?

• rapes a girl
• hits an old woman
• doesn't keep his word
• loses a battle to a woman

What is the Knight's original sentence by King Arthur?

• banishment
• torture
• beheading
• imprisonment

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What did the queen ask the knight to tell her?

• What is the thing that women most despise?
• What is the thing that women most desire?
• What is the thing that women most give?
• What is the thing that women most tolerate?

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What does the Wife's allusion to Ovid's myth of King Midas and his wife imply about women?

• Women want capable lovers.
• Women can't keep secrets.
• Women want gold.
• Women can't be faithful.

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What is the Wife of Bath's opinion of holy friars, according to "The Wife of Bath's Tale"?

• They are holy men who help all who ask

• They are a danger to women

• They are worse than the elves

• They are useless as the elves.

In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," what does the knight do after hearing the queen's question and leaving her presence?

• He searches all over and asks every woman he finds for the answer.

• He leaves the kingdom and tries to find a safe place to hide.

• He goes to prison because he could not answer the question.

• He searches for the old woman to get her advice.

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In the story of Midas, what was the secert ?

• Midas had donkey ears

• Midas had been cursed

• Midas was in love with somebody

• Midas was helping the enemy

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Who does Midas' wife tell the secret to?

• The servants

• The air

• The water

• Her sister

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What was the Knights response to the porposal and did he do it?

• anger, and he did not marry her

• joy, and he married her that day

• disgust, and he married her in secert

• disgust, and he did he refused to marry her

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